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Originally Posted by s0xxx View Post
I think Workstation uses the CPU features, at the botom of page see Software using AMD-V and/or Intel-VT for list of software that make use of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization

http://www.virtualization.info/2007/...tation-60.html
There's nothing in the online library, the VMWare website, or the documentation that I could find on their site, that makes any mention of hardware virtualisation support in VMWare Workstation 6.0, VMWare Player 2.0, or VMWare Server 1.0.

According to their VMI Performance PDF, they continue to use binary translation, as their current implementation is faster than their experimental hardware virtualisation implementation. This is for VMWare Server ESX 2.0.

There is mention of a hardware assisted version of the VMM in this paper from 2006 that mentions experimental support for hardware virtualisation in VMWare Server 1.0.1. However, there is no mention anywhere (that I can find) on their website that says this is actually available and usable.

So, if they support hardware virtualisation, they go to great lengths to hide that information from the public.
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